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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,. TUENDAY,” SEPTEMBER 4, 1918,-

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HONGKONG AND CHINA.

Flood Prevention, and "Squeeze,"

The meeting of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce yesterday

DAY BY DAY.

SMOOTHRUNS THE WATER WHERE

At the Peak 8am. Temp. 74; sunshine,

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NOTES ON THE CRISIS A YEAR AGO TO-DAY. THE ROYAL H K YACHT

'CLUB

The Austrians.

LEADING EVENTS IN THE "GREAT WAR.

Extracts from the war news, con tained in the “Hongkong Telegraph" of September 14,

1914.

There is not much doubt an to the all-round nooona of the Russians and the corresponding discomfiture of the Austro-Ger-

The Servlan Advance. mans; and, if our allies ja the

The Servians have occupied East are feeling "good" and don 8.mlin. The Berrian Army has sident, one can hardly blame captured S-mlin, after a hard them. Moreover the Russians se Biberian, Canadian and Americana Roe are far too shrewd to wax Mails, Clored pore.a.Tenyo over confident; they leave that to Mara to-day at 11 a.m. the Kaiser and his frisade, “At Sibrisa Mal-Closed per practically every point on the

Yingohow to-day at 3 p.m. Estern

3he Mails.

fight.

Australians Success in New

Qulars M

Members of Enemy Nationality Expelled.

Yesterday evening an exꞌra- ordinary general meeting of the Royal Bongkong Yacht Cluby

WB

beld in the Club Hous noder the chairmanship of the Commodore, Mr. F.Smyth, for the purpose of pusing resolutions altering the rules of the club co as to expel members who are

enemy nationality

In proposing the resoluti the chairman said that the ob The Australinos bave captured of the meeting wore suffici the wireless station at Berbert set out in the resolutions and fren either been after 18 hours' bash fight-bim. In passing them the

the Austro shobe, German New Gaines, needed but little commen

driven

Australian Mail-Oloses per 8.8. Germons have

Tango Mara to-morrow at 3 stopped interv elde

p.m.

ing. They have garrisoned Ber- but falling into line with all the back Sceptical British readers berishoke and Rabani.. Another other British sporting clube and would do well to remember that samen were killed and one partionlarly that of the these storien of defeat are not wounded.

Yacht Club. He therefore pro-, posed the following

in connection with the scheme THE BROOK IS DEEP Heary VI. THE ETERNAL BERNSTORFF. (already alluded to in thees

The Weather. columns) for preventing floods, did not fail for want of plain Lower level 8 sm. Temp. 79; speaking. The Chinese of Bong-sunshine. kang realise what many of their friends over the frontier have not İyot discov;red: that frankness'on Future of squeezes will do Count the Columus.

Yesterday the Telegraph no harm, and way do a very large amountof good. The speakers yes- publiebed 363 columns of solid terday called things by their right reading matter. To-day there Dames without the introduction will be 33 published. of false modesty; and sensible people will respect them all the more for it. While one of them reminded those present that, if the Chinese Government collected the suggested impost, the col lectors would not play the game, another hinted that if the previous speaker's advice were followed and the collecting were left to the people, the same amount" of squeers would still go on. The more the Chinese drag this sort of thing to light and face it squarely, the stronger will theyİ cuss the morality of the eqaseZO become. We are not going to dis- pidgin; European hands are not invariably soolean, in that regard, that they can ifford to throw stones at the Ohinese. As a mut ter of policy, however, one would occurred to our very practical Chinese neighbours that the prac- |... tice must ever be disastrous, Meskee the rightness or wrong aneis, the bonesty or dishonesty of it-a people that cannot trust its own government, its own friende even, with its money ffire, can never become powerful. All the education and all the swallowing of Western ideas will not boneft Chiza till her sons resolve to banish this nationel failing. |More Complaints.

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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1915.

WHAT THE WAR IS DOING,

Complaints still reach us as to the nuisance created by the in- discriminate flushing, of veran dabe, and the absoluteindifference

Share Market News-Openlog. Official Quotations. Banks, 4820, bayers. Hongkong O. and H. S. S.

VLd. $201, buyers.

Douglas's $87, bayars.

(Oombined $153 b. Indo

Deferred 92 b. Chicas.

Preferred 61 b.

Hongkong and K. W. and

Bài làm 276, aloe Hongkonz and W'pos D.

Co.

Ld-875, buyers. Shangbai and Hongkow W.

Oo. Ld.-8935, com. Hongkong Cottona

confined to Petrograd communi- The Victorious March. Co.; many of the most important General Joffre has telegraphed to That it is not for the comfort features have come through M. Millerand, Minister for War, or convenience of the Members of Reater's owa men, even through a follows:-" Our victory is more the Grab as a whole, or of the Bab- the Germans themselves. Is is and more complete everywhere. soribers or Visitors thereto, that Beater, and not a Petrograd The enemy is retreating, leaving any Member who is the subjset of communique, that tells us, war material and prisoners. Oars Nation between which" and for instance, of

the Army, flashed with success is Great Britain a state of war Gras-in-a-trap condition of the continuing in pursuit with all its exists should continue to be

enemy; that food by the fact of energy. The morals and endar Member of the Club,

Mr. A Denisch seconded and approaching winter, they are ence of the Allies are admirable. striving desperately from one side The Government may well be the remolation was carried. On the motion of the obairman, again, to the other for a decisive blow." proud of the Army," That "decisive blow" should be Death Roll of German Princes seconded by the Hon. Mr. H. E worth seeing. The German must The French troops have occupied [Pollock K: C. the second resolu Shanghai Cottons in S'hai.00 begin to recognise the ridi-Boissons and Luneville and the tion following, was also carried

culousness of their position in the Germans have, abandoned the [unsaimously. eyes of the world. They have vicinity of Nanog. It is reported 9. That the Articles of Associa always been on the eve of admin- that the Belgian army has cut in tion be accordingly altered by istering crushing blows, West, two the German army occupying the insertion of the following Eset and 8th-but the blows Cortenberg, which is between additional paragraph at the end never ajem to come off. If they Louvain and Brussels. A battle is of Article XXXII, namely.--

"Any Member who is the sub- had as much sensibility as a proceeding to the south-east of rhinoceros (and most of them Antwerp, but is still indecisive.ject of a Nation between which seem to have considerably less). It is reported from_O-tend that and Great Britain a etste of war they would know that they are Princes Adalbert of Prussia, Fre-existe shall, ipso facto, cease to be The rate of the dollar on making themselves a laughing- derio William of Prussia and Carls Member of the Club and shall demand to-day is Is 9 5/83.

buyere.

$9.20,

Tle. 102, buyera. " Ropes. $29, bayern. Shanghai Dock and Eng.

Co.-$62, Bellere. Ewos.-Tls. 177), sales. China Sugars.-8134), buyers. Langkate. Tie, 371. buyers

The Dollar,

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To-day's Anniversary. To-day is the B3rd aaniversary

lington.

on the part of the Chinese servant of the death of the Doke of Wel- to the amount of inconvenience, unpleasantness or damage orased by the dripping of water from parapete, pipes etc. On Sunday morning, at about nine o'clock, a leisurely coolie thought well

to wash down the verandah of the Telephone Company premises in Icehouse Street and he did

„Notice to Consigates.

Consignees are reminded that it, so thoroughly that people goods ex s.s. Benledi, remaining passing in chairs were very liber-undelivered after to-morrow, will ally bespattered. We would also be subjet to rent, mention that it is time that sms-: thing was done to prevent foot- passengers from being similarly

Silver Vases Stolen..

A Chinese olerk living at 30,

stock and not a terror.

Hapless Austria.

of Wartemberg have died in no longer be entitled to soy of hospital at Brussels,

Priss Bureau Confirmation of Russlea Victory. The Pream Bureau confirms, to

the privileges of the Ulub",

The meeting closed with a vote of thanks to the Hon. Mr. H. E.; Pollock K.O,, for the legal assis- tanos he had rendered the club in connection with the matter.

ORGAN. RECITAL:

In spite of all that one hears, day, the brilliant Russian victory, it is still difficult to avoid feeling the capture of thirty thousand --- Returned from. Holiday. Mr. Joba Lamm returned to Austrians. Trus, that pity grows

a certain ensaking pity for the prisoners and several hundred the Cology yesterday by the F.. Smaller by degrees en i beautiful.

The Official Summary of Operations. Albans, after a brief trip to Japan. ly less an ene hears of the

The Press Bures, in a summary doinge of their Ambassador of the operations during the last and his friends in Americs, or four days, states that the whole of as one roads of their copying the German right wing, since the Instrument in St. John's Catho their German friends in such 10.h inst, has been falling back dral much Improved.. peculiarly gentlemanly perform in considerable disorder. The Yesterday Mr. Denman Faller acces as Bring on ambulances eto: Anglo-French troops are following gave an excellent organ recital on Yot one feale desperately sorry at closely. Six thousand prisoners the newly repaired instrument at It is by this time something in the nature of a commonplace

heart-sorry that a nation that and fifteen guns were captured on St. John's Cathedral. There was was formerly honourable abould observation to remark that, after the war, things will never be as they were befare. But there is truth in the statement none the less, bespattered by the water that Robinson Road bas reported to have suck to the level of the Gor the 10th and 11th inst. The only a fair attendance though the guna captured by the French popularity of the programme sbadows in importance and significance the greatest ware of which the building at the top of Battery/residence of two silver vases/mans. It is the old story that one armby up to the 12th int, totalled should have drawn more, There The present struggle, which is convalsing the whole world, over- overflows from the guttering on the Police, the theft from his

Path. This has long caused an- valued at $33. past history speake, and it is not too much to say that, when it is Aually concluded, mankind in general will lock out upon a new noyance among those who are earth from a totally different perspective than that from which it obliged to use that thoroughfare has hitherto watched world movements. Certain is it that there every morning. There must be A Chinese manager of No. 276 will be a very widespread revision of nation's opinion of nation as someone or other who could say Des Voeux Road Central, reporta one of the direct results of the war. What will follow in the wake word that would lead to satis that on the 13th inst, a clerk ool- of these new ostimates—whether, for example, national spirit and factory preventive measures. Not lected $32 on behalf of the firm moral code become. A year or energy will become more solidified, or whether we shall see nationa-only is there the continual risk of and absconded. liam give place to a wider international life-it is rather premature garments' being splashed, but the to disones. The main point, however-tbat vital ohangea will be water collecting on the ground witnessed-atonde good,

the

the

health nor to comfort.

The Late Walter Emanuel.

Collects and Absconds.

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Diseases.

can't timoh pitch without getting one hundred and sixty. The were a number of old favourites one's fingers in a beastly mess. enemy is retreating along the in the programme which opened The Austrians allowed themselves

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America's Position.

Mouse.

THE MAGISTRATE'S REBUKE,

Court not Trented with due Respect.

Macdowell:

Bach's well known "Toocata and Fague in D. to the war, and the longer

Minor" played with that amount to be coaxed and bluffed in-whole of the line left of the with

of finish which made the inter XXI 4119, the lower does their own they are associated with the Ger

pretation of the intricate writ two ago an Austrian, diplomat

ing most pleasing to the list Auction Sales,"

would no more have thought of

ener. D'Evry's :" Au Soir."" was Mr. G. P. Lammers. will sell by

another outstanding selection in which the excellence of the below contributes n-ither to auction, at his sale rooms, valuablecting as Dr. Dumba bas acted than he would have felt like steal- leasehold property situate ating coppar from a blind man;

recently effected repairs was Victoria, in four lots, to-morrow, but the association with Germany

clearly demonstrated. The softer Even now, with the end of the war by no means as yet in sight,

passages were no longer marred at 3 p.m. He will also sell, at 4

a country whose mora's,'hɔn p.m., a very fine piece of red coral. our and calture exist only on

by those noises from a leak we can see signs of a readjustment of ideas. We have only to turn to British political life to find support for that statement. The

The latent Home paperar card existence of the Coalition Government and the depth of the nation's the death of one whom literature,

The Confidence Trick Again: paper; and "soraps of paper" at

This morning at the Police ing instrument and the heavier A Chinesa marned woman that has killed or hypnotised Court, before Mr. J. R. Wood, a passages were appreciably fuller confidence in it are facts which reveal the growing recognition of the

journalism and the general public living at 1, Cheung Luk Lane Austrian honoar, inadequacies of the party system to which we as a nation have to could ill spara-Kr. Walter Emhar complained to the police that,

summons against the Hon. Mr. D. in power, wood

The programme was as fol- Landale, for allowing his dog

lowe:- tenaciously clang. Similarly in the methods which

angel; and the world's regret will while walking in Gascoigne Road,

abroad without a muzzle, was anthorities are taking to organise the industrial resources be all the deeper in view of the ehe was met by two men, who, se

mentioned by Mr. W. E. L. Toccata and Fugue in D. minor of the country, in the interests of the State, for

fact that he has gore at the com- the result of the confidence trick,

Shenton, of Messrs. Deacon, Looker, Deacon and Haraton, who To the Sea.********

Madrigal ............... E. Lemare. prosecution of the war, we can perceive a very distinct converging of idess towards a real and large Socialism, however unconscions of it paratively early age of six and deprived her of two gold mounted If America is wise she will shoot Count: Bernstorff' on to the next

E d'Evry. many of our public men may be. In the matter also of the right of forty, leaving much good work rattan bangle valued at $30.

audone. His "Charivaria" had Return of Communicable ·

rabbish barge that esils out of appeared for the defendsut.

Mr. Shenton said he had been Au Sir...... the State to call upon every able-bodied citizen to bear arms we can

New York Harbour, with a polite to court upon two other som Excerpt (Dream of Gerontius) * E. Elger. detect a noteworthy change of opinion gradually taking place. But been locked forward to, week after

work, for many years by untold. The return showing the num recommendation to him to go monses returnable that morning, Requiem aeternan...B. Harwood. what is in some respects more striking still, when we recall the bit thou ands of Punch patrons, and ber of cases of communicable just where it may be most con- and he thought he might also Requiem forma ter Tarill Reform controversy of a few years back, is the way in hissasy, spontaneous fun, anshown diseases, which have been notified vesient. America is, after all, a mention this one. which fo mer Free Tradere are now coming round to the view that forth in sach books an" A Dɔg na occurring in Hongkong, doring very great nation, and it is not

The Magistrate said that the imports should be taxed. This step was recently urged on the Prime Minister by a deputation of business men and financiers, who came, in Day" had brought happiness or the week ending September 11, well that each should tolerate the

mental relief 10 countless is as follows Two chinese cases siey, beer-pot insolence of this summons was returnable last Fri day morning. Sergt. Baker had the stress of war, not to sek for a lightening of the burden of tazetion, raaders. How he contrived to of enteric fever, from districts swollen-headed bloff mopgerold him then, that he served the but with a requent that that burden might be added to. The significant Leep bis "Charivaris column other than the city of Victoria, Everyone with any sense wante pircumstance concerning the visit of this deputation was that it was

to'see Amerias keping out of the Sammons upon Mr. Landale's of a non-party character, and among those who anked for the imp to pitch, from week to week both of which proved fatal.

and from year to year, won a my

war; and the mere fiel of her servants, He, the megist:afe, thereapon instructed the sergeant

Before Mr. B. Lindell, at the position of texation upon imports was. Sir Felis Sohuster, who has

SPORTING-GUN asking Berlin to send an ambas to see Mr. Landale and inform Police Court to-day, Mr. WEL for so many years been a stalwart among Free Traders. The pro-story to everyone. He had just bis

SMUGGLERS CAUGHT. sador who has at least some mild him he would have to appear on Shenton, of Messrs. Descon, Look posal for new import taxes is based on two grounds-to secure ad- own peculiar touch, that was like

pretensions to being a gentleman Saturday morning.

er Desoon and Heriton, appeared ditional revenue, and to reduce the consumption, in the interests of agiturning ham bug, kuavery

or foolishness to ridicale. He was Two Chinees wi man, of whom surely need not bring about hos In answer to his Worship, to defend Mrs. Dennison, 44, The national thrift of unnecessary, luzaries imported from abroad. Isis rarely if aver illnatured in doing one was blind, were charged tilities. Of course no one will obvious, of course, as the Prime Minister reminded the deputation,

Mr. Landale a desired.

counts of allowing her doge to be that both these objects cannot be attained at one end the same time, this, he was rather the rollicking, before Mr. J. R.Wood, with have have much sympathy with that Sergt. Baker said he had seen Peck, who was summoned on two happy-go-lucky, irresponsible ing in their possession on board party in Washington that, accord- Continuing, the magistrate said abroad, unmusaled. Le Sheaton but, as Mr. Barold Cox retorted, alternatively wo get one or the bus brilliant schoolboy, with a an unlicensed boat at Tai Koking to Renter this morning, he had made the summonere aid the one was quite staple other, and both are of value. The main point, however, in that Free bawk's eye for the shallow, the Teni, a double-barrelled shot gun, still hopeful of the possibility of turnable for September 17 and The dogs came up from the brok Traders should make these requests to a Free Trade Premier and be bombastic or the Insincere. an automatic single-barrelled shot making Germany conform to in- given a respectful and even sympathetic hearing. We have touch- ed upon these one or two matters to show that one public men of all Apropos, will Punch readers over gun, and three hundred rounds ternational law and the law of had given instractions for it to be of the garden and got through e

forget his remark at the time of of ammunition.

bamenity by diplomatio negotiatered personally. He did not hedge into Mount Kellett Road parties are willing, if need be, in the peculiar circumstances of the the San Franólico earthquake: The blind woman was die ion. We cannot believe that this think the court had been treated It was impossib

with due respect and he would time, and in the interests of the country, to sacrifice opinions and The Daily Mail talks about charged, the other being fined party

ty will get much backing, take the case on Friday when Mr. prejudices to which they have held throughout a lifetime. The word seismic diaurbanced, just as 3400 er in default three months' even in Americs itself. The day Shenton might make a statement

welding the people into a common whole. That is what it all though it were a penny paper hard labour.

has gone by for that sort of thing

by way of explanation.

means:

Widor.

UNMUZZLED DOGS:

to mux

dog, & Japanese pugi

A fine of $4 was imposed in esp case;